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- Joan Aragone: Play games to improve your brain (San Mateo County Times)
As we age, our brains function less efficiently than they did when we were younger.That isn't news to anybody over 50 who knows the experience of forgetting a name immediately on introduction or grasping for words to describe a common object.
- Meirelles making 'Love's Labour's Lost' (Digital Spy)
Brazilian helmer Fernando Meirelles tackles Shakespeare's Love's Labour's Lost for his next film.
- Share this article: (Tallahassee Democrat)
City of Bainbridge July 4th Concert and Fireworks: Trent Tomlinson and Keith Anderson. 7 p.m. Free. Earl May Boat Basin, 101 Boat Basin Circle, Bainbridge, Ga. (229) 248-2000.
- Health Care - Another California 11th Hour - OpEdNews.com
Before I was a wife and mother, divorced woman, single mother, free spirit, student, and all the other cloaks I've worn through the last 65 years, I was a poet. Born that way. My love of poetry pretty much ended with Rupert Brooke, who died in WWI ...
- Lesbos Island once more, with feeling - Sophia Echo
To be or not to be called a “lesbian?” These days, this is the question that galvanises residents of the famous Greek island Lesbos, who campaign against the term being used to refer to gay women. The issue was taken to court by three Lesbos ...
- Poetic war of words - South Devon Herald Express
Poetic war of wordsSouth Devon Herald Express, UK - 42 minutes ago... who spent a lot of time at Dartington and was a good friend of Leonard Elmhirst. “Tagore's poetry operates on the principles of culture, activism and ...
- So, How Would You Like Your Culture Clash? Joke-Filled or Sugar-Glazed ... - New York Times
CHICAGO — Tracy Letts ’s Pulitzer-and-everything-else-winning “August: Osage County” is a full theatrical meal, a nine-course tasting menu of family angst. His new play, “Superior Donuts,” which opened Saturday at the Steppenwolf Theater ...
- Poets chalk their art - Auckland stuff.co.nz
Auckland stuff.co.nzPoets chalk their artAuckland stuff.co.nz, New Zealand - 2 hours agoThe country’s best bards take to the streets to celebrate Poetry Day next week. The annual event on July 18 showcases work by writers from the young and new ...
- The beauty of Islam (The Kansas City Star)
Several readers of last week’s column asked why I called Islam “incredibly beautiful.” Based on decades of study, world travel and long friendships with Muslims, I answer with three hints.
- African music icons for Madiba celebration - Independent Online
TopNewsAfrican music icons for Madiba celebrationIndependent Online, South Africa - 12 hours agoAdditionally, Madiba's life will be reflected in song by a choir, South African vocalists and a live band, through poetry, praise singers and archival ...Africa and SA’s best to play for Mandela SowetanSouth Africa: Musical Concert to Celebrate Madiba's Life AllAfrica.comall 38 news articles
- July 4 is more than a holiday - La Crosse Tribune
Another July 4 is upon us. In addition to fireworks, flags and hot dogs on this day, each one of us should take it upon himself or herself to read the Constitution and the first 10 amendments to it — the Bill of Rights. These are precious gifts ...
- Pop culture's fabled green elixer now trendy, potent and legal in US - Munster Times
Pop culture's fabled green elixer now trendy, potent and legal in USMunster Times, IN - 8 hours agoMotivated by psychedelic '60s music and John Keats poetry, Islam concocted The Green Fairy ($15), a hypnotic blend of North Shore Absinthe, ...
- Cultural Life: Ben Whishaw, Actor (Independent)
Books At the moment I'm not managing to read much more than Dostoyevsky's The Idiot because I'm working on a multimedia adaptation of it on stage at the National Theatre. I first read it when I was 18 or 19. I couldn't have understood much of it but it stirred my imagination.
- Italy: Infernal row flares over Florence council's plans to pardon ... - Guardian Unlimited
A wine-growing aristocrat who is a direct descendant of the poet Dante Alighieri said yesterday he would boycott a ceremony at which he was to have received the city of Florence's highest honour on behalf of his ancestor. Dante, the father of the ...
- Bear books for children are great reading - San Francisco Chronicle
Bear books for children are great readingSan Francisco Chronicle, USA - 3 hours agoIn a most natural way, Muth infuses the book with a melange of Asian references and sensibilities - Japanese poetry, Buddhist teachings, tai-chi-like ...
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